Kiwi-Tongan Steven Adams was a crucial player in the Oklahoma City Thunder making it to the NBA Playoffs in the Western Conference.

The Oklahoma City Thunder lost to the Golden State Warriors in an intense conference final in Oakland 88-96. Check out the highlights from the electrifying game 7 decider!

Highlights of the nailbiting series saw Steven Adams take a hit to the groin from opposing Warriors forward Draymond Green in game 3.

Standing at an impressive 2.13m Adams averaging 29 minutes per game in the finals series!

Adams success has drawn out fans all over his home country of NZ starting the trend #StachesforSteven 

The trend appears to have been initiated by one of his biggest, smallest, cutest American fans:

Check out Adams' stats for the 2016 conference finals series against the Golden State Warriors:

The Golden State Warriors will meet The Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Playoffs.

My name is Dallanz and I'm representing Rotuma. This is our first time at a festival like this and we are so excited to represent our culture.

We are drummers and we play the lales and the dunduns and the pahua. We are part of the Fijian delegation and we are also performers in Rako Pasifika which is a contemporary dance group in Fiji

Iane: We have strong links with other Polynesia styles Wallace and Futuna, Samoa and Tonga so we've adapted our styles to other countries as well Rotuman music is most similar to Fiji.

Iane: The Kuki and Tahitian beats are the best their very technical and their instruments compliment each other very well. We've actually been to Washington DC and the Blues fest in Byron Bay. We do our cultural dances which is based around themes - climate change and global warming.

What makes the Rotuman flavour stand out at the festival?
Dallanz: Our energy.…more

MENA which is a family Pacific Fashion label based in Auckland, organised a catwalk event to help raise funds to help get the people of Fiji back on their feet.

It's not in the headlines now, but the devastation caused by tropical cyclone Winston is still being felt in Fiji.

Fiji is still suffering the effects, so every little bit counts!

Check out the latest range from MENA here

The Pacific Music Awards is only two weeks away, and today the recipient of this year's Lifetime Achievement Award is announced: Christchurch based performing arts collective, Pacific Underground.

Source: NZ Herald

They formed in 1993, and since then have shared stories of Pasifika communities living in Aotearoa through plays, music concerts, events, CDs, tours and collaborations with artists all over the Pacific.

Pacific Music Awards Trust spokesperson Rev Mua Strickson-Pua notes that the award recognises artists who have significantly contributed to Pacific music over an extended period of time.

Pacific Underground appearing in the Pacific Music Awards 2011.

"That's certainly something the community sees in Pacific Underground. This group has occupied a central space in the local scene and across a wide variety of mediums.…more

Check out the biggest gathering of Pacific artists in the world - the Festival of the Pacific Arts 2016! 

27 different Islands from Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia have come together in a sharing of knowledge and Taonga from their counties.

Local Chamorro are hosting the different delegations at high schools around the Island that have been converted into dorms for the 100 strong delegations.

Hundreds of different artist feature across all art forms until June 2nd - from visual arts, digital arts, floral, food, traditional dance, contemporary performance, body adornment, theatre, tatau and clay work.

POLOMA IOSEFA (a.k.a MOMOEACHOKES)

Samoan

28 years old

I'm making this fisherman's hat, this is the style from our ancestors almost exact replica from the way we made them hundreds of years ago.

The more intense weaving is from my teacher here but a lot of the style of coconut weaving came from my aunties.
This pandanus comes from off island the Chamorro coconut fibre is alot stronger, alot more sturdy.

We don't have a lot of coconut trees in Guam so there isn't a lot of raw material- the beetlenut destroyed
them.

As far as folding leaves it was very easy to get the concept but it's very difficult to hold on to all the leaves at one time! Now days all the traditional weavers are really scattered, in our all group Its mostly men who weave but back in the day it was mostly women.

The most challenging thing I have woven is a little bag because the finer it gets the more challenging it can be.…more

Tonga 'Uli'uli Fifita (born 3 February 1959) is a semi-retired Tongan professional wrestler known for his appearances in both World Champion Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). In WCW, he wrestled under the name Meng; in the WWF, he wrestled under the names King Tonga, King Haku, and Haku

Special thanks to Michel Mulipola

The spectacular opening of the Festival of Pacific Arts '16 with 27 Island nations representing their finest in this unique showdown of all our magnificent Pacific taonga and performance! #FestPac #OpeningShowcase #VakaArrival

Kiwi-Samoan heavyweight Joseph Parker is set to fight Solomon Haumono in what would be the biggest transtasman bout in history.

The fight would likely take place in New Zealand, and the winner would get an IBF title bout against Britain's world champion Anthony Joshua.

Parker, 24, defeated tough French-Cameroonian Carlos Takam in Manukau on Saturday via unanimous decision to become the mandatory challenger for Joshua.

The undefeated Parker (19-0, 16KO) is New Zealand's best heavyweight since David Tua, while Haumono (24-2-2, 21KO) is one of Australia's best-known athletes having previously been a star NRL player.

Haumono, 40, has been publicly challenging Parker for some time and it appears his wish has been granted.

But he will be a heavy underdog against Parker, who many believe is the future of the heavyweight division alongside Joshua.…more